This is a nice overview of the design philosophy behind nym servers and the alt.anonymous.messages (AAM) newsgroup. It discusses the outlines of the SOP of a group of child pornography traders. This group was penetrated by the Feds after they busted one guy, and despite their participation in the group for 18 months they were unable to capture everyone. Most notably, the group’s leader (who strictly adhered to the SOP) was able to avoid capture.

Protect yourself from spam in three easy steps:

1. If you haven't done it yet, create a spamgourmet account. Enter your user name and the email address you want to be protected. You will be asked to identify the word in a picture and pick a password.

2. Spamgourmet will forward to this address all the emails sent to your spamgourmet disposable addresses -- that way you don't have to tell anyone else what it is -- this is why it's called the protected address. Of course, this protected address must exist. That's why you have to confirm it. You'll receive an email asking you to confirm.

3. After you have confirmed your protected address, you can give out self-destructing disposable email addresses whenever you want. The disposable addresses are like:

someword.x.user@spamgourmet.com

where someword is a word you have never used before, x (optional) is the number of email messages you want to receive at this address (up to 20, and the number 3 will be used if you leave it out), and user is your username.